COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) – The College Station City Council has voted to discontinue work on the Veterans Park Baseball Fields project, opting instead for the Midtown Baseball Complex.
The decision, made at a late October council meeting, will result in significant savings for the city. The council will also review several rezoning requests for potential new developments at its meeting on November 13.
The council is expected to finalize the amounts owed on two contracts tied to the Veterans Park project, adjusting costs to reflect work completed.
College Station City Council scraps the $1.3M Veterans Park baseball project, anticipating $900K in recuperated funds and shifts focus to new development proposals, including an 800-lot subdivision. The council meets on November 13 to finalize contract closures and review rezoning requests.
This move is projected to save the city more than $266,000 on design work and an additional $5,000 on pre-construction services, such as site analysis, totaling over $271,000 in savings.
Despite the savings, the city has already spent more than $1.3 million on the project. College Station City Manager Bryan Woods said at the last council meeting that he anticipates a significant portion of the expenditures could be recuperated.
“Of that, we anticipate that if we were to move the project and it were to remain the same, basically the design of the fields, we’d recuperate a little over $900,000 of it,” Woods said.
In addition to closing out the baseball field contracts, council members will consider three rezoning requests, primarily for rural or undeveloped areas, indicating interest in future neighborhood developments.
The College Station City Council will consider three rezoning requests, primarily for rural or undeveloped areas, on November 13, 2025.
One proposal seeks to rezone 238 undeveloped acres east of Greens Prairie Road from rural to general suburban to allow for an 800-lot residential subdivision.
Another request involves rezoning more than three undeveloped acres northeast of McCullough and Wellborn Road from rural to a planned development district. The final request is for a half-acre at 1612 Park Place, seeking to convert it from general suburban to middle housing, which the applicant hopes will increase the marketability of a two-story, four-bedroom home.
The College Station City Council will convene at City Hall at 6 p.m. on Thursday, November 13, to address these items.
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